Video Tutorials On Roofing

@BryonyRae Thoughts on this? Clearly I've adapted it somewhat, but this is essentially what I had in mind when thinking it would be somewhat easy to do this on multiple floors. I've preserved all the lines as in the original roof, but incorporated it into the third floor, and used the decorative dome piece to get around needing another full story for the uppermost right angles. I'm actually thinking of a much more complicated version right now which wouldn't need the dome piece at all, but I wanted to show this to you first.

@BryonyRae This still isn't a super complex version, because I've kept it on multiple floors again, but this eliminates the dome. I used a combination of a half hip and a half gable with the eaves pulled back for the top. Matching the edges of the two pieces requires some playing around with their heights, too. The longer you make the half gable, the flatter you can make the top of it by curvature, but then you have to cover up the curvature somehow. The second picture shows an unfinished example of a gable used for covering up the curves. It would also give you room to play around with adding some dormers on the third floor, jutting out of the gable.

I had to widen the base by one square on each side, as well, to accommodate the topmost roofing parts, because the half hip needed to be wider in order to make it rounded instead of pointy.

Thankyou for your very helpful tutorial! :) I will post a link to it in the Building Tips and Turorials thread.

Interesting video, thanks for working on it! This will be really helpful for those planning a dome roof as you've explained why you've used the dimensions you did and I certainly learned a few things that I didn't know. Very insightful and nice to hear your thought process on roofing.

I may have to fiddle with the roofing on my current project in light of watching this video to refine it a little more. I won't say much but I was inspired by your Green Dragon Tavern to create a different type of animal shape. Well done sir, your video is much appreciated. :)

Excellent tutorial, Aquilifer! The domes you create with your method are so intricate; I'm sure if I'd tried doing one on my own, it would have come out far more basic (if I'd even managed to figure it out!). I'm keeping this thread bookmarked for sure!

Very good

thanks for the tutorial, love it! :smiley:

Great... !!!

@aquilifer Well done eagle bearer of the Roman Legion! Well done, indeed, and many thanks to you!

Thanks for the video tutorial man.